Dr Shinya Yamanaka wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine and gives us a much-needed lesson on the beginning of life
When the newly appointed UK Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced last week that he would support lowering the upper limit for abortion to 12 weeks, nobody could have imagined what a headline grabbing statement it would turn out to be. Much of the subsequent media attention focused on discussions about the beginning of life and what value should be attributed to it at what stages of...
Read MoreAborted fetal tissue used in stem cell trial – no thank you
We share the dream of seeking cures for strokes, spinal injury, cancers and all the other conditions which beset modern man, but the realization of that dream cannot depend on the taking of life of other human beings, no matter how early in development those tiny lives may be.
Read MoreRCOG blatantly endorses status quo of UK Abortion Law in Government commissioned reports
RCOG blatantly endorses status quo of UK Abortion Law in Government commissioned reports Two reports, commissioned by the Government in relationship to abortion were published last week by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on ‘Fetal Awareness’ and ‘Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality’ (*). CORE works with many colleagues nationally and internationally...
Read MoreRisk of congenital malformation to children born after assisted reproduction
For some years now there have been big question marks relating to the overall safety of assisted reproductive technology, and whether the children born have any increased risk of poorer health outcomes than those conceived naturally. The processes involved in sperm selection and subsequent fertilisation procedures (ICSI), as well as pre-implantation testing of the embryo (PGD) involving the...
Read MoreLet’s not dirty our hands with social sex selection
Prof Stephen Wilkinson, from Keele University, has published a controversial article supporting social sex selection on the BBC site, ‘Scrubbing Up’. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8665282.stm Wilkinson argues that it is time to lift the prohibition in the United Kingdom on using assisted reproductive methods to identify and choose the sex of one’s child for social reasons. In a radio...
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